Author: Dr David N Menton
The marvelous ability of all living things to reproduce themselves after their kind is one of the most distinctive properties of life. This reproductive ability depends in part on a vast collection of precise genetic instructions, called genes (about 100,000 in humans), that reside in every cell of each living organism. It is believed that… Sickle Cell Anemia And Other “Good” Mutations Of Evolution Read More
One of the most fundamental axioms of biology is that all life comes from pre-existing life. Still, until the later part of the 19th century, life was believed to arise from non-living matter by a process called “spontaneous generation.” Ancient Egyptians, for example, thought mice arose from the mud of the Nile. In 1600, J.… The Origin Of Life Read More
And There Is! Perhaps the reason so many people continue to reject the notion of evolution is that it seems contrary to ordinary experience. Things left to chance just don’t get done. Random changes in anything simply do not produce higher levels of organization and complexity. Rather, all complex machines and devices with which we… There Ought To Be A Law Against Evolution — Read More
Almost from the beginning, evolutionists have attempted to equate the process of evolution with the progressive development of the embryo. Durign the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial” in 1925, for example, lawyers and expert witnesses defending teaching Darwinism in public schools, repeatedly confused evolution with embryology. The lawyers even insisted that evolution must be taught if… Is The Human Embryo Essentially A Fish With Gills? Read More
In the May 20, 1982 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Fred Ledley, M. D. presented a clinical case report titled “Evolution and the Human Tail.” Ledley’s report concerned a baby born with a two inch long fleshy growth on its back, bearing a superficial resemblance to a tail. Ledley strongly implied… The Human Tail, And Other Tales of Evolution Read More
Or, None Of The Above? I have heard many Christians say that evolution doesn’t concern them because, after all, it’s “only a theory.” Presumably they think that the word “theory” means about the same thing as a “pipe dream.” But the term theory, at least as it applies to experimental science, has a much nobler… Evolution A Theory, A Fact, Or A Law? Read More
Anyone who has ever watched the monkeys and apes at the zoo couldn’t help but notice their resemblance to humans. By comparison, the bears in the zoo are not nearly as similar to human as are the apes. Still, bears are warm-blooded mammals and thus are more similar to human that are cold-blooded reptiles like… If We Resemble Apes, Does That Mean We Evolved From Apes? Read More
The human brain consists of approximately 12 billion cells, forming 120 trillion interconnections. The light sensitive retina of the eye (which is really part of the brain) contains over 10 million photoreceptor cells. These cells capture the light pattern formed by the lens and convert it into complex electrical signals, which are then sent to… Can Evolution Produce An Eye? Not A Chance! Read More
Most evolutionists insist that the occurrence of evolution is an indisputable fact, even if its exact mechanism must remain speculative. Since evolution is believed to occur far too slowly to be discernible in the time frame of human observers, we must examine prehistoric evidence in the fossil record if we are to observe the “fact”… What Do The Fossils Say? Read More
Much of the controversy between evolutionists and creationists concerns the age of the earth and its fossils. Evolution, depending as it does on pure chance, requires an immense amount of time to stumble upon anything remotely approaching the complexity we see in even the simplest living things. For over 1200 years, geologists have attempted to… The Dating Game Read More
* POSTMODERNISM (NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN) This, our first issue of a new year, is addressing the subject of postmodernism. What is that, you ask? It is the new and latest cultural worldview. I was first introduced to the term back in 1994 when Christian News carried a review of the book “Postmodern Times–A… SMORGASBORD Read More